Will RAMSAY (SA/DE)

Global Music Academy/Campus & Music Crossroads (SA/DE)

The South African saxophonist, composer and educationist Will Ramsay is the Artistic Director of the Global Music Academy in Berlin. He studied music at Rhodes University in South Africa and the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He has taught at the Federated Union of Black Arts in South Africa, the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and founded and developed the world music program at the Hochschule fuer Musik “HannsEisler” in Berlin
from 1995 to 2005. He is currently the pedagogical director of the Music Crossroads Academies Project (Zimbabwe & Mozambique), and Global Music Campus, a mobile teacher training and curriculum development program for African music active in 11 countries in East
and Southern and West Africa.